Hawaii Man Who Was Mistaken for Someone Else and Locked Up for Over Two Years and Drugged ‘Until He Became Catatonic’ Files Federal Lawsuit
23 November 2021
23 November 2021
A man who spent more than two years locked up in a Hawaii state mental institution in an alleged case of mistaken identity has filed a federal lawsuit against the state, the city of Honolulu, the public defender’s office, and a slew of police officers and doctors. In the complaint, filed Sunday in the U.S. District Court in Hawaii, Joshua Spriestersbach claims he was unlawfully detained in violation of his civil rights for alleged crimes committed by Thomas R. Castleberry, despite consistently and repeatedly insisting that he was not the latter Castleberry. According to the suit, officers with the Honolulu ...
Hawaii Man Who Was Mistaken for Someone Else and Locked Up for Over Two Years and Drugged 'Until He Became Catatonic' Files Federal Lawsuit
A man who spent more than two years locked up in a Hawaii state mental institution in an alleged case of mistaken identity has filed a federal lawsuit against the state, the city of Honolulu, the public defender’s office, and a slew of police officers and doctors.
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